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Israel is much worse than the original apartheid state.
Clare Short / British Politician
Apartheid
Israel
States
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Of course we need action, but it should be Just action.
Clare Short / British Politician
Action
Needs
Should
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One must strike the right balance between speed and quality.
Clare Short / British Politician
Quality
Balance
Speed
Right Balance
Strike
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I have set out to change the language of the international system.
Clare Short / British Politician
International
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[Israel] undermines the international community's reaction to global warming.
Clare Short / British Politician
Community
Global Warming
Israel
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We need to keep this Labour government, it has a good chance of another term.
Clare Short / British Politician
Chance
Government
Good Chance
Labour
Needs
Term
Labour Government
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It needs to become as easy to get hold of a condom in a poor country as Coca-Cola.
Clare Short / British Politician
Birth Control
Country
Needs
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Most of us women like men, you know; it's just that we find them a constant disappointment.
Clare Short / British Politician
Men
Constant
Disappointment
Men Women Know
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I think the good old British democracy should keep scrutinising and pressing to get the truth out.
Clare Short / British Politician
British
Democracy
Should
Thinking
Pressing
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But they were going to war anyway and they were going to bully and pressure countries to vote for it.
Clare Short / British Politician
Bully
Pressure
Vote
Anyway
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The Liberals have been pressing for the brief on the basis of which he said there was authority for war.
Clare Short / British Politician
Authority
Basis
Brief
Liberals
Pressing
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I think the suffering, violence and cruelty and Guantanamo and the rest is going to go on and on in Iraq.
Clare Short / British Politician
Cruelty
Guantanamo
Iraq
Suffering
Thinking
Violence
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The Liberals have been pressing for the brief on the basis of which he said there was authority for war...
Clare Short / British Politician
War
Authority
Said
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The Commons is one of the most depressing and intellectually unstimulating places in the country. [On the state of British politics
Clare Short / British Politician
Politics
Country
Depressing
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People have accused me of being in favor of globalization. This is equivalent to accusing me of being in favor of the sun rising in the morning.
Clare Short / British Politician
Morning
Accused
Accusing
Accusing Me
Globalization
People
Rising
Sun
Equivalent
Favor
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The latter-day robber barons are discovering that better conditions and rewards for workers pay off in a world where consumers increasingly demand ethical standards.
Clare Short / British Politician
Demand
Ethical Standards
World
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We all understand that America feels so angry, they want to get somebody, but you can't just have lots of planes and guns and ships and make everybody do your bidding.
Clare Short / British Politician
America
Bidding
Gun
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Obviously this is the world descending into worse and worse standards of targeting civilians both in state violence in Iraq, Gaza and so on and the terrorist retaliation.
Clare Short / British Politician
Civilians
Descending
Gaza
Retaliation
Standards
Terrorist
Targeting
Worse
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To tackle the underlying roots of violence and conflict, we need a massive international effort to reduce poverty and injustice, and to promote development, democracy and human rights.
Clare Short / British Politician
Effort
Rights
Roots
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I also believe that US backing for Israeli policies of expansion of the Israeli state and oppression of the Palestinian people is the major cause of bitter division and violence in the world.
Clare Short / British Politician
Believe
Division
People
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But then Iraq happened after September 2001 and America claimed that Al Qaeda was there, and we all know that was a lie and we now know that our own Prime Minister deceived the country terribly.
Clare Short / British Politician
Country
Deceived
Iraq
Lying
Prime Minister
September
Al
Claimed
Lie
Terribly
Minister
Qaeda
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And if you remember the other part of the context is we were then all deceived about the French position and told the French had said they'd veto any second resolution - which wasn't true, we now know.
Clare Short / British Politician
Deceived
Remember
Resolution
Said
Veto
Context
French
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I mean that the time where we need International agreement more than ever on the environment and the rest, poverty we are breaking up our International Institutions and the rule of law and Tony Blair is part of it.
Clare Short / British Politician
Break Up
Smile
Agreement
Blair
International
Law
Mean
Poverty
Rule Of Law
Breaking
Breaking Up
International Institutions
Rule
Tony
Tony Blair
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And we know there has been horrendous loss of life and suffering and we know that there is anger. Anyone who came anywhere near the general election in constituencies with a substantial Muslim population knows that.
Clare Short / British Politician
Anger
Election
Loss
Lost Friendship
Population
Anywhere
General Election
Horrendous
Muslim
Near
Substantial
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The Middle East is more angry than ever. I'm afraid that the sort of deceit on the route to war was linked to the lack of preparation for afterwards and the chaos and suffering that continuous - so it won't go away will it?
Clare Short / British Politician
War
Angry
Chaos
Deceit
East
Hype
Linked
Middle East
Preparation
Suffering
Afterwards
Continuous
Go Away
Route
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I mean enormous pressure was brought to bear - Valerie Amos, Lady Amos, went round Africa with people from our intelligence services trying to press them. I had to make sure that we didn't promise a misuse of aid in a way that would be illegal.
Clare Short / British Politician
Enormous
Illegal
Misuse
Pressure
Promise
Africa
Aid
Bear
Enormous Pressure
Round
Lady
Services
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That feeds anger, and I mean when we went and at last thank heavens got towards peace in Northern Ireland we went for justice within Northern Ireland as well as using security well, as well as a political settlement, but surely that is the lesson.
Clare Short / British Politician
Anger
Peace
Ireland
Mean
Northern Ireland
Settlement
Feeds
Towards
Heavens
Lesson
Northern
Surely
Thank
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The problem is going to be finding the right words and implementing it in a way that is really dealing with people that are inciting and not preventing honest discussion of the underlying causes of this horrendous political situation the world is in now.
Clare Short / British Politician
Causes
Discussion
Implementing
Preventing
Right Words
World Political People
Political World People
Dealing
Finding
Horrendous
Political Situation
Underlying
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So my own suspicion is that the attorney has stopped this prosecution because part of her defence was to question legality and that would have brought his advice into the public domain again and there was something fishy about the way in which he said war was legal.
Clare Short / British Politician
Legal
Advice
Attorney
Defence
Domain
Fishy
Legality
Prosecution
Public Domain
Suspicion
Stopped
Brought
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For the first time ever we are capable of removing abject poverty, illiteracy and the diseases of poverty from the human condition. The current intensification of global economic integration has demonstrated that there is enough knowledge, technology and capital to bring development to all the people of the world.
Clare Short / British Politician
Technology
Development
People
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Political correctness is a concept invented by hard-rightwing forces to defend their right to be racist, to treat women in a degrading way and to be truly vile about gay people. They invent this idea of people who are politically correct, with a rigid, monstrous attitude to life so they can attack. But we have all had to learn to modify our language. That's all part of being a decent human being.
Clare Short / British Politician
Attitude
Gay
Ideas
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